I'll have fries with that

AUTHOR(S)

Hill, Rosalind

PUB. DATE

November 2010

SOURCE

British Journal of Nursing;11/25/2010, Vol. 19 Issue 21, p1323

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Editorial

ABSTRACT

The author offers opinions on public health policy in Great Britain. Cabinet officer Andrew Lansley is criticized for a plan in which the government will cooperate with food and beverage industry companies to create strategies for limiting obesity and diet-related diseases and alcohol abuse. It is argued that these industries have a vested interest in encouraging consumer behavior which creates these health problems, making it unlikely they will help create policies which might limit their own profitability.